Re: Three short apt/dpkg questions
--- Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. Which package contains the man-pages for C-library functions like
> sprintf()?
manpages-dev
> 2. Is there a way to ask the system which package owns a specific
> installed file?
dpkg -S file
> 3. Is there a way to determine the name of the (non-installed)
> package
> which owns a particular (non-installed) filename? e.g., which package
>
> will install the file printf.1.gz?
apt-get install apt-file && \
apt-file update && \
apt-file search <whatever>
-- Thomas Adam.
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